Manic Street Preachers - where to start

stickyfiddle

Hymnal said:

Start early and ignore later stuff as IMO they are going downhill a bit and the last three albums all sounded the same. Shame as the early stuff was genius and they are awesome live

I'm not sure you've heard the last 2 - one largely acoustic and very mellow, the other noisy krautrock...

Bucket

I've now got the National Treasures singles anthology and I like it. Some songs are far better than others though.

I don't mind some of the newer stuff - Autumnsong and Your Love Alone is Not Enough are fantastic.

Nicky Wire's lyrics are kind of bollocks but all credit to JDB - he turns that drivel into some really brilliant music.

stickyfiddle

Bucket;359063" said:

I've now got the National Treasures singles anthology and I like it. Some songs are far better than others though.

I don't mind some of the newer stuff - Autumnsong and Your Love Alone is Not Enough are fantastic.

Nicky Wire's lyrics are kind of bollocks but all credit to JDB - he turns that drivel into some really brilliant music.

Wisdom for Autunmsong. Absolutely brilliant song. Probably the one of theirs I most wish i'd written